Marine Licencing Case Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 302196**Salary**:

- £25,726 - £28,870- £25,726 (N), £28,870 (L)**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- Executive Officer (N), Executive Officer (L)**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 13Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- This position is based at London, National**Job description**:
**What we do**

We licence, regulate and plan marine activities in the seas around England and Wales so that they're carried out in a sustainable way.

This helps the government achieve its vision for clean, healthy, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas.

**Who we are**

We were created by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 and are now a team of almost 300 people. We combine our Newcastle upon Tyne and London operations with a local presence around the English coastline in North Shields, Scarborough, Grimsby, Lowestoft, Harwich, Hastings, Shoreham, Poole, Portsmouth, Brixham, Plymouth, Penzance, Whitehaven and Preston.

**Our responsibilities**

We’re responsible for:

- managing and monitoring fishing fleet sizes and quotas for catches
- ensuring compliance with fisheries regulations, such as fishing vessel licences, time at sea and quotas for fish and seafood
- managing funding programmes for fisheries activities
- planning and licensing for marine construction, deposits and dredging that may have an environmental, economic or social impact
- making marine nature conservation byelaws
- dealing with marine pollution emergencies, including oil spills
- helping to prevent illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing worldwide
- producing marine plans to include all marine activities, including those we don’t directly regulate
- enforcing wildlife legislation and issuing wildlife licences

Job description

The team’s work is diverse and you may work on port developments, navigational dredging, coastal defences, nuclear energy or marine renewable energy projects, extraction of aggregates from the seabed, salvage of wrecks and many other activities taking place in the marine area.

You will be responsible for assessing the potential social, environmental and economic impacts of these activities and for drafting reports based on these assessments.

You will also be responsible for drafting licences giving authorisation to activities and for drafting licence conditions to control the activities.

Depending on the individual and case officer roles available you may split your work between casework and provide specific technical advice, participate in casework reviews and deliver training.

You will be expected to provide advice to applicants and other parties. This will include attending meetings and teleconferences and may include attending public inquiries and hearings into nationally significant infrastructure projects.

The Marine Licensing service is chargeable and you will be required to record all your time on the MMO’s time recording software in line with guidance.

You will have a passion for the marine sector and be able to develop the skills needed to fulfil the MMO’s role as an enabling regulator. You will understand the importance of the regulatory process and the position of the MMO as a regulator, and effectively deliver fair, open and transparent decision making.

**Main Duties and Accountabilities**:

- Ensure that you make robust decisions in line with key performance indicators and quality assurance processes
- Marine Licensing Application decisions
- Ensure all casework is dealt with promptly and efficiently using casework tracking systems
- Produce environmental impact assessment screening and scoping opinions
- Undertake technical and environmental assessments: Habitats Regulations, Marine Conservation Zone, Marine Plan Policy
- Work with primary advisers/consultees to draw together relevant legal and/or scientific advice
- Liaise with enforcement officers to ensure that compliance and enforcement activities are carried out in a robust manner
- Ensure that you are engaging effectively and appropriately and that marine licensing is well represented with stakeholders
- Advise applicants and other parties about relevant regulatory frameworks and project-specific issues
- Work with applicants and other parties to resolve complex issues and to enable sustainable development
- Brief senior managers and assist with Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations requests

**Essential criteria for these roles**:

- Ability to meet the core competencies in the competency profile at this level.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to adapt to different audie